Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-18

here into the ball room, which is long and
wide, with a carved panelled dadO the
height Of q man running round it. The
mighty fire place is OF wrought iron and
shining brass, the windows huge and
bowed and the floor parquetted with oak,
shining as though polished with sunshine.
White and gold are the prevailing cOlOrs,
though the low settees against the walls are
brocaded, and iuterspersed are arm chairs
with red painted frames and backs. The
south end of the room above the dadO is
entirely Of glass painted with foliage and
vines, behind which are placed lights that
shining through transform a work of arl
into what seems q work of nature.
A ten minutes brisk walk through the
pleasant grounds and the opening of q
swing gate brings you TO one of the most
attractive features of the estate, the Princess
of Wales own dairy. Imagine if you car
a Swiss cottage with projecting caves and
peaked gables, built of dark Norfolk stone,
and broken by quaint little windows with
diamond panes. Let your fancy enwreath
it with budding rose vines, the clematis
with its splendid flowers of blue, rose and
white, green shoots of ivy and a wreath Of
yellow h~oneysuckle. Surround the cot
tage with a running border Of rich purple
pansies, planted by the white fingers Of
the Princess, and place in the low arched
doorway with the Princes plumes over the
Intel, the figure of q r~Oly-pOly old woman
with red cheeks, twinkling black eyes,
black net cap and Il big white apron, the
strings of which define a waist, and you
will have q picture of the dairy with lie
care taker of twenty-three years standing,
There are four rooms, beside a small
dressing room under the caves, in this
pretty place, and naturally chose to en-
ter the most interesting n tirSt-the tea
room, in which the Princess has placed
every ornament with her W hands, and
where in the afternoon she goes with heI
friends and cuts the bread, the butter fol-
which she churned herself.
The room is small, has a light mating
on the floor, and the walls are covered with
dark sage green paper. All the wood work
is oak, simple but well carved by hand,
and in the square window a cushioned oak
seat is placed. The chief decorations are
titles beautifully painted by personal
friends aud relatives of the Princess. The
very door by which you enter has on the
inside three titles in Watteen tints, insert
ed between the panels, and painted by the
Duchess of Manchester. They show three
plump and lovely cherubs fishing, and
very much tangled up III their W lines.
These were the earliest title contribution
TO the tea room, when they were matched
by the first Duchess of Westminster, who
sent for the door opposite, opening on a
tiny stairway, three tiles of similar size
aud cOloring, but much better done, repre-
senting the same Cherubs hunting q wild
boar, though for safety two had hied up a
tree.
Above the wainscOtting were three tiles
with Kate Greenaway sketches, very
daintily finished by the Princess Louise,
and five still more c~leverly done by the
Duchess of Cumberland. These represent
Danish dairy scenes, and when the Queen
of Denmark visited her daughter, she told
the old dairy woman that one tile, show
ing n fascinating little dairy with a red
and white tiled floor, an open swinging
window in which roses were peeping, and
a pretty maid with a Dolly Warden dress
and a cOquettish cap, IA really a fac
smile of her own dairy in Copenhagen"
"What sort of a lady is the Queen OF
Denmark" | asked dame Barber.
"A very pleasant spoken lady, please
mum, and so young looking that it came
ard to believe as she was the mother OF
our Princess; and she knows all about
butter making too"
There were scores OF other tiles cOlOred
by titled painters, and a pair of handsome
PLAQUES from the Duke of Hesse, sent
after the Princess Alice died. Two water
carafTes on brackets were decorated by
Mr.. Francis Knolbys, and there are a
couple of large octagonal china placques
of old Russian delft, sent by the Czarina
of Russia for her sisters dairy, and de
picting winter e on the Neva.